girls:
11 births since 1926
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.8k births since 1884
#1547 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1884
#3549 (54th percentile)
The name Elden is the #3,549 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,852 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 54.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,547 (66.3% percentile) for all time with 5,841 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1926.
Elden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1926 for girls). Birth data for Elden is available in 131 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (131 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Elden has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Elden reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 24.8% percentile (ranked #411) with 125 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 133 births per million (ranked 23.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Elden ranks #881 for boys (3.3% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 14.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Elden reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #603) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1935.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elden".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Elden. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.7% confident that Elden is pronounced as EHL-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-dihn, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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